SWIMMING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2221, 26 October 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

SWIMMING.

Aur's had a heavy card for thmr ® Glasgow, on Monday mglbt, timer the°loolwls Eng}i‘‘'championshiu and the 100-metre world s race cord at Athens last year - ‘Daniels first race last night was i« the -rOy ds against 'Jas. S. A wile (Gdasotn) tne Scottish 100 yds champion. Ihe at tel- had the better of the start, bn Daniels was level at the half <- tance and won by a yard m 2b l o* • 100YDS. INVITATION HANRICAI C M Daniels, New York, c d)...,.-1 Ciias. D. Risk, Victoria Bath Club, •Glasgow, Osec. start j. Murphy* Gov.au h airfield Club, Won easily by three yards. Time, 5S 1.-ssee.

I‘Oaniels says he is m the host of form, and taking matters iy is certain to lower his last year s lOO.yd-t-ime.” And he did, too, according to the cable man.

Referring to the recent success of Tartikover, the Australian swimmer, in England a Sydney writer says: Our crack swimmers who go to tilt Old Country aro to be envied indeed. What a lot of the world fluey nee under most favorable conditions, and, as a rule, at no expense wHiatevei to themselves. “Tart,” as lie is t-ami-1-i-irilv referred to li.v ins friends in Sydney, didn't leave Australia with any of our banks at liio back, and report says lie went ill quest of work. Now one hears of him first an London then ill Germany, and, later still, in Scotland, getting along swimmingly, and, beyond any manner of doubt, spending a more enjoyable holiday than perhaps a very wealthy ail an might command, for money couldn t purchase the friendship of the class of people associated with T.artakover, nor could it open the doors of houses and places that lie enters as a representative amateur from Australia. I v;as a champion swimmer or.co, but- not even the suggestion of these things was available to me —-the misfortune of being born too soon!